Summary recap
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a. Develop various skills & abilities at the same time.
Skills can be developed and improved over time, while abilities are learnt and bring
out the skills in children.
Children learn a number of skills and abilities between the age of 8 and 18 months,
such as the ability to walk, run, communicate their needs verbally, feed themselves,
identify family members, recognise themselves, and venture confidently into familiar
surroundings.
Skills can be developed and improved over time, whereas abilities are those which
are learnt and bring out the skills in children.
b. Difference between growth & development.
There are five significant phases in human growth and development age of baby,
toddler, childhood, middle childhood, adolescent, adult, and elderly/older.
c. Various stages of development in humans
There are five key areas of development: gross motor skills, fine motor skills, speech
and language, cognitive and intellectual skills, and social and emotional skills
d. Different areas of development throughout an individual’s life.
Development is the behavioural aspect of growth (e.g., A person develops the ability
to walk, talk, and run).
Growth generally takes place during the first 20 years of life; development takes
place during that time and also continues after that point.
e. Relationship between different areas of development in a child.
Different areas of development are interlinked so that a child's progress in one area
influences the progress in the other area of development.
f. Cognitive development
Cognitive development is the development of the ability to think and reason.
g. Erikson’s theory of psychological development
Erikson's theory suggests that the personality develops in a pre-determined order
through eight stages of psychosocial development from infancy to adulthood.
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Social development in accordance with expectations of society
Development in Children is the process of physical, linguistic, intellectual and
emotional changes that occur from birth to early adulthood, influenced by hereditary
factors, prenatal events, environmental facts and the child's ability to learn.